Husband and I wan’t to file our federal JOINT. We are active duty military with separate states ( GA and IA)

From a tax standpoint, your State of Legal Residency (SLR) is considered your “domicile” or “resident” state as long as you are on active duty. Even if you are stationed in another state, you’re still considered a resident of your SLR.

It sounds like that is why you are assigning one spouse’s income to GA and another spouse’s income to IA.

Some states will compute a tax based upon the combined income reported on the Federal tax return, then generate deductions, adjustments and credits to compute the tax balance due.

Are you able to view the state tax returns and follow the computation?

You can review the 1040 in TurboTax Online by following these directions.

• Down the left side of the screen, click on Tax Tools.
• Click on Tools.
• Under Other helpful links, click on View Tax Summary.
• Down the left side of the screen, click on State Tax Summary to see the actual tax return that you prepared.
• Down the left side of the screen, click on Preview My 1040 to see the actual tax return that you prepared.
• Down the left side of the screen, click Back to return.

You can print or view your full tax returns prior to filing after you have paid for the software.